■Night listening modes

The night listening modes are designed to improve listenability at lower volumes or at night. Choose either NIGHT:CINEMA or NIGHT:MUSIC depending on the type of material you are playing.

Press AMP to select the AMP mode, then press NIGHT repeatedly on the remote control to select cinema or music.

When night listening is selected, the NIGHT indicator in the front panel display lights up.

AMP

NIGHT

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•Select NIGHT:CINEMA when watching films to reduce the dynamic range of film soundtracks and make dialog easier to hear at lower volumes.

•Select NIGHT:MUSIC when listening to music sources to preserve ease-of-listening for all sounds.

•Select OFF if you do not want to use this function.

Press j / i to adjust the effect level while

NIGHT:CINEMA or NIGHT:MUSIC is displayed.

This adjusts the level of compression.

PRESET/CH

ENTER

A-E/CAT.A-E/CAT.

Remote control

Effect.Lvl:MID

•Select MIN for minimum compression.

•Select MID for standard compression.

•Select MAX for maximum compression.

y

NIGHT:CINEMA and NIGHT:MUSIC adjustments are stored independently.

Notes

•You cannot use the night listening modes with PURE DIRECT or MULTI CH INPUT (even though the NIGHT indicator lights up when PURE DIRECT is selected).

•The night listening modes may vary in effectiveness depending on the input source and surround sound settings you use.

PLAYBACK

■Downmixing to 2 channels

You can enjoy 2-channel stereo playback even from multi- channel sources.

Rotate PROGRAM (or press AMP to select the AMP mode, then press STEREO on the remote control) to select 2ch Stereo.

PROGRAM

AMPSTEREO

or1

Front panel

Remote control

2ch Stereo

y

You can use a subwoofer with this program when SWFR or BOTH is selected in “BASS OUT”.

■Listening to unprocessed input signals

In STRAIGHT mode, two channel stereo sources are output from only the front left and right speakers. Multi- channel sources are decoded straight into the appropriate channels without any additional effect processing.

Press STRAIGHT (or press AMP to select the AMP mode, then press STRAIGHT on the remote control) to select STRAIGHT.

STRAIGHT

AMP

STRAIGHT

 

or

ENT.

 

 

EFFECT

 

EFFECT

 

 

Front panel

 

Remote control

STRAIGHT

Press STRAIGHT (EFFECT) again so that “STRAIGHT” disappears from the display when you want to turn the sound effect back on.

■Virtual CINEMA DSP

Virtual CINEMA DSP allows you to enjoy the CINEMA DSP programs without surround speakers. It creates virtual speakers to reproduce the natural sound field.

If you set “SUR. L/R SP” to NONE (see page 63), Virtual CINEMA DSP activates automatically whenever you select a CINEMA DSP sound field program.

Note

Virtual CINEMA DSP will not activate, even when “SUR. LR” is set to NONE (see page 63) in the following cases:

–When MULTI CH INPUT is selected as the input source.

–When headphones are connected to the PHONES jack.

OPERATION

BASIC

 

 

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